Bushido Ways Slot Review

Bushido Ways Slot RTP, Details and Wager Limits

The Bushido Ways slot is initially played using 5 reels, 4 rows and 1,024 ways to win. The game mechanic means that this can increase massively, offering 12,288 ways to win, if the reels reach their maximum configuration courtesy of the nudges and slicing wilds. To create a winning combination, you need to land 3 or more matching symbols or wilds on adjacent reels, starting from reel 1.

You can join the warriors at stake levels that range from 20p to £100 per spin. Click on the Dollar sign to view all available bet levels (there are 25 to choose from). In some countries, there’s an Autoplay function where between 5 and 100 autospins can be selected. These come with single win and balance limits.

The Bushido Ways RTP is 96.01% which is average for a slot game. If you buy 1 of the free spins features, the RTP can increase up to 96.82%. With a hit frequency of 21.54%, you’ll land a winning combination just over 1 in 5 spins on average.

Variance wise, it’s very high and rated as 9/10 (extreme) by developer Nolimit City. The potential maximum win is a massive 30,000 x your total stake from a single spin.

Theme – join legendary samurai warriors 

The Bushido Ways slot is set in Japan and based on the infamous warriors. The Bushido was a moral code adopted by Japanese Samurai warriors. Its core tenets involve honour, respect, tribute, glory, fear and revenge. It’s a bit like the codes of chivalry associated with European knights from the Middle Ages.

The Samurai warriors are central to the design here. As you’d expect, there’s a strong hint of historical Japan. Combine the impressive visuals with the traditional Japanese soundtrack and you have a slot that’s very atmospheric and sounds like it’s from a blockbuster film. As always, it’s impressive from Nolimit City as usual.

On the wooden-style reels you’ll see Asian A to 10 symbols alongside higher value Samurais who can land in stacked formation. They’re all very well drawn and packed full of detail. The red Samurai is the most valuable symbol and pays 2 x your total stake for 5 in combination.

Maintaining the Japanese theme is the Geisha which is a nudging wild that can land on the middle reel only. There’s also a single wild symbol and a Bonus.

Symbol	Payouts/Info
10	3, 4 or 5 = 0.05, 0.2 or 0.5 x stake
J	3, 4 or 5 = 0.05, 0.2 or 0.5 x stake
Q	3, 4 or 5 = 0.05, 0.2 or 0.5 x stake
K	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.25 or 0.65 x stake
A	3, 4 or 5 = 0.1, 0.3 or 0.75 x stake
Green Samurai	3, 4 or 5 = 0.15, 0.4 or 1 x stake
Blue Samurai	3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 0.45 or 1.5 x stake
Red Samurai	3, 4 or 5 = 0.25, 0.5 or 2 x stake
Regular Wild	Substitutes for all symbols above
Geisha Wild	Triggers The Wild Geisha feature
Bonus	Triggers Free Spins features

Bushido Ways Mobile

Bushido Ways xNudge is available to play on mobiles, tablets and desktop devices. You’ll find the high-class design and wide variety of features no matter what you’re playing on. The Bushido Ways mobile slot plays superbly.

Bushido Ways Bonus Features

Nolimit City has packed a wide variety of extras into the Bushido Ways slot. Gameplay highlights include nudging wilds, transforming symbols, sliced wilds and a pair of free spin bonus rounds.

The Wild Geisha feature

As her name suggests, the Geisha symbol is wild. She spins in 4-high stacks and can appear on reel 3 only. When she does land on that middle reel, she triggers The Wild Geisha feature. The Geisha nudges so that the whole of the reels turns wild. For every step the wild nudges, a multiplier increases by 1x.

Sliced Wilds feature

The single-symbol wilds can land anywhere apart from reel 1. If you land a single wild on reel 3, 4 or 5, you bring the Sliced Wilds feature into play:

Now, the sliced wilds will also increase the number of ways to win. If reels 1 and 5 have 4 symbols, reels 2, 3 and 4 can have 6, 8 and 16 symbols meaning 12,288 ways to win potentially (4x6x8x16x4). Land the sliced wilds in the free spins features and they copy down to the bottom of the reel before the slice occurs.

Oni Transform feature

The Oni Transform feature is triggered by landing a stacked Samurai symbol and a bonus symbol on the same spin. The Samurai symbol then transforms into the most lucrative symbol, currently on the reels. All lower value Samurai also transform into this new and lucrative symbol and a payout consideration is made.

Shogun Spins feature

Land 3 or more Bonus symbols on the same spin and you’ll trigger the Shogun Spins feature. It will take approximately 205 spins to enter this feature. Anyway, you’ll then get 8 Shogun Spins or free spins. Each extra Bonus symbol adds another free spin to your total.

During this feature, at least 1 single wild is guaranteed to land on reels 2, 3, 4 or 5 on each free spin. Land a stacked Geisha Wild in this feature and you’ll be upgraded to the Geisha Spins feature.

Geisha Spins feature

Trigger the Geisha Spins feature via the Shogun Spins feature or by landing 3 Bonus symbols and a stacked Geisha wild on the same base game spin. Once again, 8 free spins are awarded.

For each nudge the Geisha Wild does, a sticky multiplier is brought into play, up to 4x. Extra free spins equal to the value of the multiplier are also awarded. Landing a Bonus symbol here adds 1 extra Geisha Spin to your tally. On each Geisha Spin, a single wild is guaranteed to land on reels 2, 4 or 5.

Nolimit Bonus feature

In some territories, players will have the chance to buy 1 of 2 free spins features. Known as the Nolimit City Bonus feature, the RTP also increases with each feature. Here are your options:

Bushido Ways Review Summary – learn the way of the warrior

The Bushido Ways slot is a beautifully designed game. With a lot of variety on offer, the bonus features offer something different to what we’ve already seen in other Nolimit City slots.

Key to big wins is the Sliced Wilds feature which can increase the number of ways to win to 12,288. This applies in the base game as well as in the 2 free spins features.

Of the 2 free spins features, the Geisha Spins feature is where the best action will come from. The sticky multiplier up to 4x will land you huge wins hopefully with a 30,000 x stake max win available (known as The Journey’s End). The chances of winning this amount is 1 in 45 million though.

The xNudge mechanic can be found in other slots like Deadwood. Bushido Ways has many some similarities as it also comes with multiple free spins features. The latter offers bigger win potential but is simpler in terms of gameplay.

Overall, Bushido Ways xNudge is another superb release from Nolimit City. It doesn’t match up to San Quentin in my opinion but not many slots come close either.

If you fancy more battles, head to Imperial Rome with Nolimit City’s Legion X. Boasting 31,000 x stake max wins, it uses xWays, xNudges and Infectious Wilds as legendary Roman warriors battle barbarians.